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Friday, January 31, 2003
Cory Doctorow is Jammin' on the WELL Charlie Stross is leading a discussion with Cory Doctorow in the Inkwell forum on the WELL. If you're not a member of the WELL, you can send your comments and questions to Whuffie is a way of keeping score of a real-world currency: esteem. Money is just a crude way of measuring esteem, but it's non-idiosyncratic (in a real Whuffie economy, you wouldn't ever get a "rich asshole," because "asshole" would mean "poor," at least for your own purposes). It doesn't engineer scarcity because it's not used to apportion nonscarce goods, only scarce ones, like attention and physical locations. Social incentives are the most powerful forces in our world -- the reason you can't wear your underwear on your head is because of disapprobation. The most disruptive thing about the Internet is its ability to locate you in homogenous communities that embrace the same values as you, so that there's no dialectic in socail pressure: IOW, you can spend all your time in alt.underwear.on.my.head and never get the funny looks that would cause you to reconsider your fashion choices. This isn't necessarily a bad thing (except when it is, i.e., alt.big.nazi.idiots), but it is a powerfully disruptive thing. Dave Winer on The Peking Duck Dave Winer's weblog post about The Peking Duck, a blog by a guy named Richard living in Beijing, includes insights about blogging and democracy. (One quibble - Dave implies "Richard" is Chinese, but evidently he's an American expatriate living in China, and the guy evidently has no problem posting through the firewall, but he's only recently found a way to view his own blog). Via Pete Kaminski. [Link] [Discuss Dave Winer on The Peking Duck ] I believe that China and Iran, both of which theoretically have one-party-systems, and the two-party systems of the west will experience an upheaval soon because of the Internet. Diversity is the rule. Politics isn't one-size-fits-all. Sure we have some common interests. But the Chinese government is as obsolete as the centralized media it depends on. In the future every citizen will define his or her own political party, along with his or her interests, beliefs, and whatever it is that makes people different from each other. Thursday, January 30, 2003 Anti-gravity Speculation about military antigravity research and deployment. This article by Australian mechanical engineer Malcolm Street suggests that semi-secret antigravity research has already produced useable technology. [Link] Towards the end of an otherwise routine article on aircraft propulsion in Air International in January 2000, reprinted at aeronautics, well-known and highly respected aviation writer Bill Gunston speculated that the American Northrop B-2 Spirit heavy bomber already uses some form of anti-gravity technology: Monday, January 27, 2003 Internet Attack's Disruptions More Serious Than Many Thought Possible Tampa Bay Online is one of many news sources covering the SQL Slammer attack, but none of them is quite clear about the real story here: the worm exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL server, but a patch had already been released that removed that vulnerability. The worm was so successful only because SQL admins were not keeping their patches up to date. The worm was a bad thing, but the two real problems are
A Warning About Huminity Got this from Gerrit Visser, reposted with permission: This weekend I was networked by the Huminity global map of connections. http://www.huminity.com. When I downloaded the software to check out the features and the way it is used the application imported my entire contact list of Outlook in my contact tree which was included in the Huminity system. I was not aware of it and certainly did not give my consent to Huminity to address each contact of my list with a notification that I included them as my friend in the Huminity system. Soon I received some nasty emails from people who objected. The application makes it easy to remove the tree and assures that no information about ones contacts remains in the Huminity network. It is not unlikely that some of you are included because someone has you in their contact list. Personally I think this approach is unethical and reminds me of the hole in the Microsoft Outlook architecture. I would like to start a discussion about this practice and hear what others think of this Huminity approach. Gerrit
P.M. Dear Sir, The Huminity initiative is a free initiative, and we therefore see it as our moral obligation to inform all contacts that are included by users. This is done by a one-time notification in which these contacts are presented the means of asking to be removed, with or without a consent from the user that has included them in his/her contact-tree. These contacts are in no way on any Huminity Mailing list, and as stated before, we see it as our moral obligation to inform these contacts. We are honestly sorry that you feel offended by this, and as you requested, we immediately removed your contact-tree, including all your contacts from the Huminity Network. Please note, that upon un-installing the Huminity software, the user ! is asked whether he/she wishes to remove all his/her contacts and information from the Huminity Network. The default for this is to automatically remove the contacts of a user that un-installs the software. Please note that we do not hide the fact that we notify the contacts in the installation, and in our website, both under Software, and under Privacy, and of-course in the User Agreement. Moreover, we specifically delay the sending of e-mails from the user's first log-in into the Huminity Network. During this time, a user can remove any contact that he/she wishes, or ultimately remove all his/her contacts, and those contacts that are removed do not receive an e-mail notification. Again, we are sorry to hear that this caused you inconvenience.
Kind regards, Caves of Slovenia  Another cool Quicktime VR panorama - Caves of Slovenia: The new cave of Krizna jama. Virtual evangelist Hans Nyberg says in an email that only 30 persons have visited this scene. The Wireless Cowboy Rides Again!  Cantankerous Col. Dave Hughes gets some of the credit he's overdue via CNN. Dave has been pushing the Internet envelope since the 1970s and was an early proponent of wireless technology - he had connectivity built into his saddle! (He was also instrumental in getting Hedy Lamarr the recognition she deserved as co-inventor of spread spectrum technology.) "When he dies, Hughes wants his coffin equipped with a laptop computer, wireless Internet access and a solar panel that would grab light from above ground." [Link] "What he loves is when somebody tells him something can't be done. He up and does it himself," says Frank Odasz, who worked on the schoolhouse bulletin board project and now mentors rural towns on how to use the Internet for community development. Is anyone out there? Professor Paul Davies has written a thoughtful consideration of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) . Given how frustrating the search for intelligent life on Earth can be, I applaud the efforts of SETI scientists to find intelligence elsewhere in the universe. (Note that O'Reilly has published a book, Beyond Contact, on the science behind, SETI, if you're interested in learning more.) ...Belief that there is an inherent cosmic drive from matter to life permeates much scientific thinking. But it is rarely articulated explicitly; after all, if life pops up wherever there are earthlike conditions, then there seems to be something deeply contrived in the way the universe is put together. Seti obliges us to unpack that extraordinary claim and face the fact that if there is a law that steers matter to life then we haven't found it yet, and it will be a law like no other we have discovered in nature so far. Sunday, January 26, 2003 Why *Open* Spectrum? I've been working with David Weinberger via Greater Democracy, and I'm thinking his is the most clueful and inspiring voice about the issues we're struggling with as a society now global, interdependent, and connected like never before. In Why Open Spectrum Matters: The End of the Broadcast Nation, David talks about the intersection of connectedness, emocracy, and economy. We're in a media-saturated environment, and this has led to some advances , and it's fed our hunger for democracy and empowerment... but just enough to let us know how hungry we really are. Media evolved in the last half of the 20th century as broadcast, which means that the channels were controlled by the few who fed information and memes to the many. Broadcasters took advantage of the evident scarcity of spectrum to monopolize information channels and fill them with commercial messages conditioning those of us on the receiving end to incorporate the role of consumer as an essential and dominant part of our identities. Corporations grew fat off the profits from mass commercialization. Consumers thought they were happy enough buying products and more products, and variations of products. Then along came the Internet, and we saw another way to do media. Not one (broadcaster) to many, but many (empowered citizens) to many. Broadcast models kept popping up, but they failed, because the essence of the Internet is not top-down, but peer to peer. Ebay works because it's people selling to people. File swapping is less about "free" and more about sharing. Now we realize that the Internet's success (not as a "business model" but as a pervasive source of connection is cause to rethink other models for the distribution of information. The broadcast model, for instance, assumes that frequency spectrum for transmitting radio and television signals (and now Internet packets) through the air is limited, therefore must be licensed. New technologies exist, however; technologies that allow us to send signals over multiple frequencies without collision ("interference"). We no longer have to allocate spectrum and license its use to some while excluding others. Cool, but what happens when broadcasters lose their control of the channels for distribution? What happens when a new technology offers better a better deal for citizens, but at the expense of older models? Do we forget the new technologies in order to protect the old? Do we place the interests of entrenched businesses above the interests of citizens?
These are the kinds of questions that the FCC is considering. (Public comments due tomorrow on the Spectrum Policty Task Force report).
Read Dave Weinberger's essay be attentive to the spectrum debate - it's extremely relevant to the question of the kind of society we want to build, whether we're ready to take the next step toward a more democratic connectedness.
Saturday, January 25, 2003 Another worm turns A nasty little worm called "Sapphire" or "SQL Slammer" sucked all the blood out of the 'net for while last night. Our upline provider was down for a while, and described the problem in a 2:45 AM post: The problem with our network early this morning was caused by a known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. There have been reports of a large outbreak of infections using this vulnerability this morning affecting many sites and networks on the Internet. Information on the overall effect can be found at http://average.matrix.net/, but the summary is that packet loss on the listed networks is currently up to 20% and the reachability for the tested sites is down to 90%. Typically the packet loss is less than 1% and the reachability is 99%. This is apparently a serious problem in the core internet networks.According to the CNet news.com article linked below, the $%*#%$* worm may still be proliferating, so we may not've seen the end of it. [Link] News That Comes to You Excellent comprehensive overview of web syndication via RSS. Bloggers and other online publishers have been adding RSS feeds to their sites for many moons, and programs for tracking and reading RSS feeds are evolving. [Link] Some Austin bloggers have created an aggregate blog (sort of a beta project so far) using Movable Type's Trackback functionality, and some kind of RSS aggregation is a possible next step. Oops! AT&T learns a lesson about spam filtering the hard way. If they'd looked around, they might've avoided the hassle: the best spam filtering code is nondestructive. Leave it to the user to decide what to throw away. (And if we're that far from intelligent spam filtering, I should add, don't expect the singularity any time soon.) [Link] Friday, January 24, 2003 Imagination at Work! Very cool virtual whiteboard, but I'm waiting for the collaborative version! [Link] Wednesday, January 22, 2003 Genuine Leadership from Outer Space! Gary Stock has completed additional unblinking research on the "genuine leadership" astroturf I blogged about recently, and has concluded that we've been bombarded by alien transmissions. [Link] One week ago, someone, somewhere began demonstrating genuine leadership. Until January 2003, Google had never seen any result for this phrase. When I first checked (2003-01-17 15:00), there were fifteen results -- all published since New Year's Day. Ancient Star Chart A star chart found in Germany is over 32,000 years old, carved on a sliver of mammoth tusk. I often wonder what it would've been like to live on the land before cities were formed, especially before light and noise pollution. The sky would've been a whole different experience, and you might know it by heart, well enough to be cognizant of its passages and their relationship to time. [Link] On one side of the tablet is the man-like being with his legs apart and arms raised. Between his legs hangs what could be a sword and his waist is narrow. His left leg is shorter than his right one. Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Acronymoniously Speaking... Email from St. Jude (Milhon) with the acro du jour: Remember the cold-war play called M.A.D. -- Mutually Assured Destruction? -- where our government came on all crazed: "Stand back: I'll blow this planet to asteroids any minute now! Hee hee heeeee..." Well, the Bush plan is similar, but with less play-acting required on his part: "I'll Deciminate Iraq Over Terrorism", usually known by its acronym, I.D.I.O.T. Open Spectrum FAQ Yesterday much of my attention was focused on the launch of the Open Spectrum FAQ at Greater Democracy, a site (and organization) I've been working on with several others, including FAQ authors David Weinberger, David Reed, Dewayne Hendricks, and Jock Gill. Technology has evolved since the Titanic went down. The laws and policies in existence today address limitations of the technology of the early 1900's. Saturday, January 18, 2003 Astroturf demonstrating genuine leadership Journalist Paul Boutin blogs about an astroturf (canned message) popping up in the editorial pages of several newspapers. Paul's trying to confirm the source, but I bet you can guess. The letter says: Thursday, January 16, 2003 ACLU: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society The ACLU's new report, Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society, is an overview of the alarming trend toward a "surveillance society" in the U.S. If we do not take steps to control and regulate surveillance to bring it into conformity with our values, we will find ourselves being tracked, analyzed, profiled, and flagged in our daily lives to a degree we can scarcely imagine today. We will be forced into an impossible struggle to conform to the letter of every rule, law, and guideline, lest we create ammunition for enemies in the government or elsewhere. Our transgressions will become permanent Scarlet Letters that follow us throughout our lives, visible to all and used by the government, landlords, employers, insurance companies and other powerful parties to increase their leverage over average people.[Link] AntiPolygraph.org Anti-polygraph activism! According to this web site, polygraph testing is a fraud in that its claims for accuracy have no scientific basis. I've always figured the polygraph was basically voodoo: you tell the truth because the machine will catch you if you don't. AntiPolygraph.org is filled with references on polygraph deficiencies and a call for an end to polygraph screening. (Thanks, George!) [Link] The 1988 Employee Polygraph Protection Act abolished most use of the polygraph by private employers in the United States. Unfortunately, the government exempted itself from this legislation. We believe that our government should not, through this unreliable "testing" process, lie to and deceive its employees and those seeking employment. It should not determine the trustworthiness of these individuals based on a pseudoscientific procedure which is fundamentally dependent on trickery, biased against the truthful, and is easily defeated by deceptive persons using simple-to-learn countermeasures. Dan Gillmor: Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft Wondering why the Supreme Court's decision about copyright is causing such a fuss? Dan Gillmor explains how exending the period of time before a work enters the public domain affects you, because you're the public! Who benefits? Hint - not the artist, who's dead and gone decades before the copyright expires. (Bobby Lilly sent me an email reminding me - and you - that the court's thrown the ball back to the legislative court - the next step is to seek copyright legislation created with the public interest in mind. [Link] Like public lands and the oceans, the public domain is controlled by no one -- a situation that infuriates people who believe that nothing can have value unless some person or corporation owns it. The public domain is the pool of knowledge from which new art and scholarship have arisen over the centuries. Wednesday, January 15, 2003 Eldred v Ashcroft Decision: a defeat for the public domain The Supreme Court decided today that Congress had (and has) the right to pass blanket extensions of copyright protection. In sum, we find that the CTEA is a rational enactment; we are not at liberty to second-guess congressional determinations and policy judgments of this order, however debatable or arguably unwise they may be. Accordingly, we cannot conclude that the CTEA—which continues the unbroken congressional practice of treating future and existing copyrights in parity for term extension purposes— is an impermissible exercise of Congress’ power under the Copyright Clause. Mumbleboy patterns is one of many animations by Mumbleboy, whose cheerfully demented web site includes a blog, days of mumble. Tuesday, January 14, 2003 Peter Palmquist, Goodbye  Scot Hacker reports the tragic death of photographic historian Peter Palmquist in a hit and run accident. In an email, Scot described him as "one of those silent heroes that contributed so much." From Miriam Misrach's essay about Palmquist: Collecting, however, is only half of his devotion. Palmquist's goal is to interpret each photograph in order to understand the times in which it was taken, the person who shot it, the people who appear in it. He is interested in weaving a vast tapestry of California's past through the lens of as many photographers as possible. As he explains it, the days of pioneer photography (roughly 1850 to 1920) coincided with many of the most dramatic historical periods in California - the gold rush, the logging of giant redwoods, the settling of the West with its brutal annihilation of Indian culture and the establishment of permanent cities. Old photographs tell that story; each one is a key to the past, believes Palmquist. Monday, January 13, 2003 The Problem with Metadata From David Weinberger's Joho blog... what is wrong with this picture? [Link] Sunday, January 12, 2003 Helen Thomas has a few questions! This exchange between veteran journalist Helen Thomas and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer is posted at the White House web site. Hope it stays there. Helen is asking a few pointed questions about the apparently inevitable war with Iraq. The best part's at the end of the exchange:
Thanks, Jim! Friday, January 10, 2003 "We Media" Dan Gillmor acknowledges that journalism, thanks to Internet/web/blogistan, has become a conversation. Interactive technology — and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it — are the catalysts. We Media augments traditional methods with new and yet-to-be invented collaboration tools ranging from e-mail to Web logs to digital video to peer-to-peer systems. But it boils down to something simple: our readers collectively know more than we do, and they don’t have to settle for half-baked coverage when they can come into the kitchen themselves. This is not a threat. It is an opportunity. And the evolution of We Media will oblige us all to adapt. Thursday, January 09, 2003 Crimes before the fact I used to think that Bob Barr was vaguely reptilian (in that dinosaur way), but this piece he wrote for Washington Times is right on. In Crimes before the fact he reports that police in Fairfax County, Virginia, obviously responding to the precog hotline, are busting drunk drivers - in bars, before they get near a car! This actually is a frightening scenario that one hopes is nipped in the bud. Not only is this sort of Gestapolike behavior chilling in the extreme, but if condoned or encouraged, will find its way into other areas of detaining or arresting people for potential criminal behavior. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom  Cory Doctorow's long-awaited first novel's been released, as hardcopy (at a bookstore near you!) and as a free online distribution under a Creative Commons license (text, html and pdf formats). With a little help from the Trotts, Cory's launched a Down and Out blogsite for news and reviews. And Bill Shunn's instigating a webring for fan sites. (Cory will be discussing the book January 31 - February 14 in the WELL's Inkwell.vue conference). Wednesday, January 08, 2003 BDS C Compiler Leor Zolman has released the BDS C Compiler which was created for CP/M systems. CP/M was an operating system that was a forerunner of DOS. I don't write code, but I can think back to a day that I was working on a CP/M desktop computer with to 5.25" floppy (really floppy) disk drives and no c: drive. This is a bit of geek archaeology... Thanks, Tom! [Link] Tuesday, January 07, 2003 Thomas Hudson Reeve  Because my friend Eric is an artist specializing in pinhole photography, a page of pinhole images by Thomas Hudson Reeve caught my eye. Great images, but even better is Reeve's hilarious bio. I won't quote from it, that would spoil it - read the whole thing! Norwegian Teen Acquitted of DVD Piracy Whew! Jon Johansen, who was busted for creating a way to view DVDs on his Linux-based computer and sharing the software online, was acquitted in a Norwegian court today. Because the program circumvented security codes on the DVDs, he was accused of "breaking in." Judge Irene Sogn said people cannot be convicted of breaking into their own property. Link to the New York Times article, which requires registration. William Gibson's blog Admitting his rep as a "reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite shunning the net," nevertheless William Gibson's blogging, and he says he'll blog more or less daily. The page to watch:
Saturday, January 04, 2003 "you and the pedal-powered Internet" This was posted on the WELL with permission to redistribute. It's a message from Lee Felsenstein about his work with the Remote Village IT Project in Laos (and a request for donations via Paypal):
You can't stop Mother Nature. I'm involved in the development of the Remote Village IT Project http://www.jhai.org/jhai_remoteIT.html rural Laos which must be installed before monsoon rains begin in May. We need your help to put the first hardware in place because the international grants in process will not come through in time. To date, this project has caught the attention of the Economist, the BBC World Service, and the New York Times Magazine. According to the Times, "Development groups are watching the project closely, and for good reason. With this strange Rube Goldberg contraption, the farmers will effectively leapfrog 100 years of technological evolution. This year, they're living in the 19th century; next year, they'll be in the 21st. Few have traveled so far using a bicycle."http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/15PEDA.html Bicycle? Rube Goldberg? If you are familiar with my own history you know that my career has centered around placing computer technology in the hands of ordinary people. These kinds of systems, and this way of applying it from the bottom up, will be necessary if there is to be any hope in bridging the technological gap that divides us from most of the rest of the world. A year ago I was approached by Lee Thorn, a Vietnam Vet and Director of the Jhai Foundation, who from a perspective of reconciliation has been working with a group of five villages in Laos. After having been uprooted by the bombing of the Plain of Jars, the villagers have little left but their solid social structure. Lacking electricity and phones, they asked Jhai Foundation for a way to make phone calls so that they could communicate with relatives overseas and to secure local crop pricing information. They also wanted the use of small spreadsheets and simple word processing so that they could bid on things like construction jobs. I sketched out a system of rugged bicycle-powered computers, one per village, interconnected by Wi-Fi (802.11b) digital data links and coupled to the local phone system several miles away. Through this system VOIP (digital telephone) calls could be placed to the local phone lines as well as long- distance calls through Internet telephony to relatives overseas. E-mail would provide a kind of "telegraphy" and the system could be operated by village kids (100 percent literate) trained through an existing local network of Internet Learning Centers affiliated with this project. Clearly, this is a bare bones project. All hardware and software is off-the-shelf. Open Source software needed for this kind of system has been developed through wireless users groups. Engineers, including myself, are working on a pro bono basis. A Laotian expatriate in Rochester NY will be ready with a "localized" version of Linux in the Lao script in time for the installation. The villagers themselves are preparing and training in anticipation. The pieces are falling into place. For significant funding to come through, we apparently need to first show that the project will work. However, more importantly, we need to show the villagers that there will be more than unfulfilled promises from us. I ask you to join with me to keep this project from being rained out. Thank you for your support. PS. Any size donation is welcome and may be made online via PayPal at
Your donation will pay for: $10 20 lbs. shipping costs Thursday, January 02, 2003 New Year's Eve at Times Square  QTVR Panoramic shot of Times Square on New Year's Eve - Happy New Year! [Link]  |
interviews Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003. Jon L. interview for South by Southwest Interactive conference's Tech Report. Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002) jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle) Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal." interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone. No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9 The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28) Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff Interviews with Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies) Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998) Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet reviews Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine. review in HotWired of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997) essays
What Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle. articles Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998) Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C. Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle! Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon "We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997) Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy. Amicus Brief filed with Supreme Court regarding the "Communications Decency Act" 11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin 1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin 2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park 1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson 3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky 4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips  |
